Molina Healthcare Class Action Lawsuit Seeks Proper Pay for Doctors

In a new Molina Healthcare class action lawsuit, California doctors claim the health care provider failed to pay them their legally mandated compensation.

Lead plaintiff Dr. Manuel Figueroa believes Molina Healthcare of California cheated as many as thousands of California doctors out of the higher rate of pay they’re owed under the Affordable Care Act.

To encourage doctors to provide services to under-served populations, the Affordable Care Act requires them to get a higher rate of pay for a two-year period.

Under that provision, doctors who take patients under Medicaid can earn compensation at the Medicare rate, which is higher than the rate they would otherwise make under Medicaid – known in California as Medi-Cal.

According to this Molina Healthcare class action lawsuit, defendant Molina Healthcare is a nationwide care provider that operates in over a dozen states across the country. The company enjoys revenues of over $14 billion per year.

Figueroa is represented in this Molina Healthcare class action lawsuit by attorney Brian Mahany, founding partner of MahanyLaw.

Mahany says Molina Healthcare has been holding on to millions of dollars in compensation that the proposed Class Members are entitled to. The result, Mahany says, is that doctors who care for Latino patients end up being treated as second-class citizens.

“With annual revenues of over $14 billion, Molina can easily afford to pay its providers what the law requires,” Mahany says. “By not paying doctors who provide services to Medicaid and Medi-Cal patients, Molina is endangering the patients it is supposed to serve.”

Mahany adds that some doctors are still waiting for compensation for work they performed as far back as 2013. He points out that failing to pay doctors properly disincentivizes them from tending to the underserved communities that depend on Medicaid for their care.

Hispanic Lives Matter Supports Molina Healthcare Class Action Lawsuit

Mahany was initially approached by members of the advocacy group Hispanic Lives Matter after group members became aware of doctors having a problem getting properly paid.

The alleged wage theft appears to be a problem among doctors within the Associated Hispanic Physicians of California, a group of which Figueroa himself is a member. The proposed Molina Healthcare class action lawsuit would represent all qualifying doctors who have been so underpaid – not just Hispanic doctors or members of AHPC.

Figueroa is seeking to represent a plaintiff Class consisting of all doctors in California who worked for Molina Healthcare but have not been paid their proper compensation. He suspects there may be thousands of California doctors who have been short-changed by Molina.

MahanyLaw is partnering with other firms in California and Wisconsin to bring this Molina Healthcare class action lawsuit.

In addition to representing Figueroa in the current action in California, MahanyLaw maintains an ongoing investigation of Molina Healthcare’s business practices throughout the country. Attorneys are interested in speaking to employees of the company who may have knowledge of similar or any other improprieties at Molina.

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